Melbourne, Alexander McCubbin, [1921]. The two-page foreword by Lieutenant-General Sir Harry Chauvel describes the author thus: 'Lieut.-Colonel Olden is well qualified to undertake the work, as, joining the Regiment on its inception, he served with it throughout the War, and, though twice wounded, was never long away from duty. He..... More
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Carlton, Melbourne University Press, 1956. The first (and most important) of the four volumes in the series, published between 1956 and 1964. This copy is inscribed on the front free endpaper 'To Mr and Mrs W. McCaffrey with all good wishes from Charles P. Mountford 1960'. The standard binding is..... More
London, Jarrold & Sons, [1916]. The front free endpaper is signed by W.R. Birdwood, R.A. Carruthers, C.B.B. White, S.S. Butler, R.G. Chirnside, J.S. Churchill, C.H. Brand, Alec McGrigor and Walter A. [surname not deciphered]. In November 1914 Sir William Birdwood (1865-1951) was appointed commander of the Australian and New Zealand..... More
London, C. Arthur Pearson Limited, 1898. The maps bound in show the 'Routes of Previous Exploration in the Interior of Western Australia' (410 × 330 mm, with an archival tape repair to the stub panel); and the 'Country traversed by the Author, 1894-1895' (475 × 400 mm, with archival tape..... More
Heidelberg, The Editors, 1952 to 1955. 'Six years ago Ern Malley lived and died in Australia. Child of the unintended creative act of two other Australian poets he became overnight the most significant figure in the current literary scene. Alike as poet and as a symbol of creative living ....... More
Evans was second officer of the 'Morning', the ship sent out by the Royal Geographical Society in 1904 to the relief of Scott's first Antarctic expedition. In 1909 he was selected by Scott himself as second-in-command of his second expedition and captain of the 'Terra Nova'. He accompanied Scott in..... More
Friend's erotic masterpiece was published in Melbourne in 1979 by Richard Griffin's Gryphon Press - a full-colour facsimile of the richly illustrated holograph manuscript (elephant folio, [iv], 126 pages). The edition was limited to only 150 copies numbered and signed by Donald Friend; it was oversubscribed on publication. This large-format..... More
The portrait is interesting by any measure. Fanny is wearing an ankle-length skirt, blouse, and a sun hat held in place with a large spotted scarf knotted under her chin. She is standing in what appears to be a traditional South Australian back yard (the high corrugated-iron fence is a...... More
Charles Scott (1878-1928) is listed as a photographer at that address in South Australian directories 'from 1909 to 1915+' (Photohistory SA website). More
Cambridge, Macmillan and Co., 1859 (first edition). Henry Kingsley (1830-1876), the younger brother of the novelist Charles Kingsley, migrated to Australia in December 1853. 'Little is securely known of his Australian years. He tried gold-mining on such fields as the Caledonia, Ararat and Omeo without success and there is fairly..... More
London, Thomas Murby, [1866]. The editor notes that the work was 'chiefly dictated, with the help of materials recorded in the log-book of the journey, by Mr. Landsborough himself' during a four-month voyage from Australia. Ferguson 11330; Wantrup 175 (noting the edition in wrappers, but not recording that it has..... More
London, T. & W. Boone, 1852 (first issue). The 'Rattlesnake' expedition was an important hydrographical survey, and accordingly has a place in a collection of coastal voyages. Significantly, however, most of the second volume is given over to accounts of Edward Kennedy's tragic expedition (by Carron, Jackey-Jackey and others), as..... More
London, Becket & De Hondt, 1771 [first issue, with the dedication leaf to Banks and Solander, quickly suppressed]. The first published account of Cook's first voyage to the Pacific, which appeared some two years before the official account. This copy carries the stamp of the Northern Protector of Aboriginals, and..... More
Melbourne [and] Sydney, Lansdowne Editions (Volumes 1 and 2) and Mallon (Volume 3), 1980, 1987 and 2005. Meredith Smith is the author of the first volume; Smith and Aslin are the authors of the second, and Calaby and Flannery of the third. All volumes carry the number 267 of a...... More
London, Sampson, Low, Son & Co., 1863. 'John Davis was a member of the South Australian relief expedition, led by John McKinlay, to search for Burke and Wills. The expedition travelled to Cooper Creek and north almost to the Gulf of Carpentaria ... [They then] made for Port Denison (Bowen)..... More
South Melbourne, The Macmillan Company of Australia Pty Ltd, 1980. The acclaimed Melbourne folk artist, born in Paris in 1918 to Russian Jewish parents, died on 27 August 2018. This copy has neat ownership details (Margaret Cameron, Hampton, Victoria) on the front free endpaper. The half-title contains a lengthy inscription..... More
Melbourne, Lansdowne (Lansdowne Editions after the first one), 1973 to 1981 (as detailed above). All volumes are signed and numbered copies of editions limited to 500 copies (or just 350 copies for the book on finches). All volumes carry the number 53 and the bookplate of J. Mark Bonnin, with..... More
Adelaide, Paris Nesbit (to Number 15), then John Newton Wood, 1900 and 1901. 'The small religious newspaper "Morning" was founded in 1900 by the gifted but unbalanced lawyer, Paris Nesbit. The newspaper was initially used largely as a vehicle for his personal views on religion and Adelaide society. Nesbit unashamedly..... More
London, Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1899. The head of the title page is inscribed in indelible pencil, in an unknown hand, 'With Kindest Regards from': this is followed by the ink signatures of both authors (as W. Baldwin Spencer and F.J. Gillen). A seminal work in the history of anthropology..... More
Adelaide, A.C. Harley and Co., 1914. 'Notwithstanding the fact that we have more than doubled the number of illustrations, it has been found impossible to include all our patterns, as we are constantly adding to their number.' A rare, handsome and important catalogue of decorative ironwork; the very rare first..... More
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South Melbourne, Macmillan, 1982. Number 59 of only 100 copies of the deluxe edition, signed by the artist, with the original signed and numbered colour lithograph (250 × 245 mm) loosely inserted. More
A colour linocut on paper (image size 151 × 230 mm; paper size 165 × 243 mm), with the edition number (85/100), title and artist's signature in ink in the lower margin. The paper is moderately foxed, but this is really only noticeable in the narrow margins because of the..... More
